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Often cited as the greatest album of all time, or the greatest Beatles album ever, this was the album where pop music became treated aas serious art. On its original release on vinyl it came in a gatefold cover with a pretentious but striking cover made up of a collage of famous and not so famouse people of the time, so successfully lampooned by Frank Zappa on "We're Only In It For The Money".
The album is unusual in that there were no singles released from it to promote the album , therefore attempting to distance the band from the commercialisation of singles. But what would have been a hit at the time.
As for the songs you have "When I'm Sixty Four" which sounds like, and was covered by Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen, "With A LIttle Help From My Friends" sung by Ringo , but this was covered to wonderful effect by Joe Cocker (with a little help from Jimmy Page on guitar I believe). "Lucy in The Sky" with it's cod pscychedelic lyrics , that's Ok. A few other passable to good songs. "She's Leaving Home" is a very poignant ballad, and "Good Morning, Good Morning" and "Getting Better" are quite upbeat.
The only real groundbreaker is the superb "A Day In The Life"
While the album is not particularly bad, it has not dated too well, and (because there were no singles) none of the songs appear the superb "1" album. They made many better albums that this, but this for some reason has become their yardstick.
I prefer Abbey Road and Revolver.
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The Beatles piss me off muchly. At the time i'm sure they were blinding and i would never deny that but why should the fact that they supposedly invented pop music mean that their music should still sound good today? Jimi Hendrix, Yes. The Beatles, No. Too much hype and not enough actually listening to the music.
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